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Ask public sector IT professionals in Britain how they feel about the goals put in place to reach the government's Green ITC strategy - a goal of having a carbon-neutral IT sector by 2012 - and you're going to get

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Twitter House aka Twitter Cottage
Prepare for a case of job-title envy. Engineer Andy Stanford-Clark works on the kind of projects that usually appear first in advertisements that anecdotally demonstrate a company's forward

Nice electric mower, but why the lawn? Image credit: Sami
Environmentalists Could Always Do More, But Should They?
When I wrote about Coke's giant recycling sculpture on Monday, a commenter (rightly) took me to task for misrepresenting the debate

It's time again. Green Challenge is on the prowl for the best ideas to solve climate change through products or services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and that are ready or close-to-ready to launch in the market place. Last

Wondering where it's safe to swim in Europe? An initiative called Eye on Earth - Water Watch created by Microsoft and the European Environment Agency and powered by Bing will help you find out what water you can swim in without wondering if you're

We know carbon emissions are accelerating rapidly, but just how rapidly? Ticking at a frightening rate, a giant billboard was unveiled in New York outside Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, showing atmospheric greenhouse gases are rising by 800

Okay, so we already live in one, so we kinda know already. But what about a human-made biosphere, as in Biosphere 2? Jane Poynter explains just what it's like, from the crazy challenges they came across even to breathe, to

Scientists at the Desert Knowledge CRC say that Australia may hold some important keys to combating desertification, which is what happens when we take more resources from the land than it can handle and turns to

Kids might not need to fear the apocalypse after all. At least, that's what Pete Alcorn thinks. According to Alcorn, we have a hopeful future, because we're just about 150 years away from a new enlightenment. Check out his

Back in March we wrote very briefly about Al Gore and other big names backing the idea of a .eco domain registration for the web. Gore and cohorts are supporting Dot Eco Ltd, an organization that wants to make .eco a domain

Quincy, Washington loves data centers. The facilities put up by Microsoft, Intuit and Yahoo!, and the coming facility by Sabey Corp have all been a boon to the city's economy. But what isn't so appealing is the sheer

Back in January we saw a company called Planet Metrics at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They've created a software that allows companies like retailers, product manufacturers, and consumer packaging manufacturers

Sony Ericsson has announced a new version of two GreenHeart mobile phones. But the green upgrades are some of the most mundane "improvements" we could have dreamed up. We were somewhat enamored with the GreenHeart when the

Our Discovery Channel sister site How Stuff Works has put out an interesting video on how corn plastics work. The video is informative about how corn plastics, or PLA, is produced. But it got us thinking about other issues with PLA that weren't really

Hewlett Packard has announced a new goal for lowering carbon emissions. Since 2005, HP has improved its desktop PC energy efficiency by 40%. They want to see another 40% efficiency improvement in about half that time, by